How am I making assumptions about Arod when his life is front page news, and he wears his heart on his sleeve, and reacts to situations in public like a child. It’s all obvious stuff.

Mickey Mantle won 7 championships out of 12 W.S. appearances. He carried that team through many W.S. games with his home runs and clutch rbi’s. I personally watched him win game 3 of the 1964 W.S. with a walk off home run in the bottom of the ninth. Alex Rodriguez can’t even get his teams into a World Series much less carry them during one.

I will tell you straight out, without Mickey Mantle the Yankees don’t win half of those WS games, and I’m not even talking about the pennants he helped them win.

Do me, and everybody on this board a favor, stop with the Mantle comparisons, you only make yourself look like an idiot!

Yawn, more Arod seasonal stats to bore everybody to death. Note to all Arod apologists on this board:

We get the stats thing! Terrific, he put up marvelous stats during the regular season. Putting up great stats does not, I repeat, DOES NOT add diddly to team success. If it did, the 1962 Philadelphia Warriors, with Wilt Chamberlain averaging 50 pts a game would have won the NBA title.

That’s the only argument you have, his regular season stats. But you can’t measure clutch hits, you can’t measure what effect a player has on a team’s chemistry, and you can’t measure a player’s effectiveness under pressure, you just see it. And what I see of Alex Rodriguez is an over-hyped superstar who puts up great regular season numbers, but can’t hack it under pressure; whether that pressure occurs during a regular season game, or a game in the playoffs – the guy is a choke under pressure, period. END OF DISCUSSION! GET OVER IT!

Pedroia does not seed a special coach to remind him to play hard, and Drew didn’t need a team of therapists to help him figure out that his team needed him to put up some numbers. A-Rod was too busy sneaking into Madonna’s service elevator to notice what real baseball players were up to.

I’m sure he’ll have a monster year next year, since he does that every other season. He will never be loved by Yankee fans. If that is what he needs, he should have signed with Seattle or San Diego.

Not his fault Hughes and Kennedy sucked.
Not his fault Wang got hurt
Not his fault Cano, Giambi and Melky have had sub-par years
Not his fault that the rotation has been pieced together by the likes of Rasner and Ponson
Not his fault the Rays and Red Sox have been good this year.

Is some of the blame go on A-Rod for this year, sure. But all of it, no way. He’s having another good year, and itwould be even better had he not gone on the dl. He’d be around 40 HR’s, 120 RBI had he not gotten hurt, and probably, the Yanks would be in a better position. 20 something games without your clean-up hitter can hurt you, and it did.

Unless you know the players personally, you are making assumptions about their lives that you have no way of knowing to be true.

The comments from armchair GMs here are sometimes tough to read through but the comments of armchair psychologists are always tough to read through.